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Presenter Information: dee \;H obsbawn-Smith \;(she/her) \;currently serves as the 10th \;Sas katchewan Poet Laureate. She lives rurally on Treaty Six Territory west of Saskatoon. She writes award-winning poetry\, novels\, short stories\, and essays\, which are sometimes influenced by her background as a chef and l ocal foods advocate. She served as the Saskatoon Public Library&rsquo\;s 3 5th Writer in Residence\, and earned her MFA in Writing and MA in English at the University of Saskatchewan. \;Her work has appeared in numerous literary magazines and anthologies. She has written ten books\; her most recent is \;Among the Untamed: poems\, published in 2023 by Frontenac House. Danceland Diary\, \;a novel\, published by Radiant Press in 202 2\, was a shortlisted finalist for the SK Book Awards&rsquo\; Fiction Awar d. \;Bread &\; Water: essays\, was \;published in 2021 by Unive rsity of Regina Press. It \;won the SK Book Award for Best Nonfiction\ , and Taste Canada&rsquo\;s Gold Medal for Culinary Narrative. Her book\,& nbsp\;Foodshed: An Edible Alberta Alphabet\, won three international award s for its unflinching portrayal of small-scale sustainable food production . She recently completed a new collection of essays\, and her third poetry collection. In her spare time she cooks\, gardens\, quilts\, grows orchid s\, and runs. She&rsquo\;s a fan of good chocolate\, better coffee\, good wine\, period movies\, and detective novels. She hopes to learn to play he r guitar before she turns 80.
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